It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.